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underhope

noun

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English underhopen (“to consider as secondary, discount”), equivalent to under- + hope.

  1. derived from underhopen — “to consider as secondary, discount”

Definitions

  1. A lowered expectation or hope.

    • Of baffled struggling crowds and broken cries And the great stedfast underhope that never dies.
    • Yesterday they went with underhopes of home And mostly glad to go - how impotent to save […]
    • He also has a greater hope, what he might have called a tremulous underhope: that the neighbours who say that 'he hears it not now' might be mistaken.

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